Osmoxylon lineareGreen Aralia

Osmoxylon lineare, the Green Aralia or Miagos Bush, holds an upright, narrow shape on stiff green stems and covers them in deeply cut, glossy bright green palmate leaves that give a fine feathery texture at close range. It stays narrow without pruning, which is its main practical virtue.

That narrowness makes it the plant for a screen with no depth available: a 600 millimetre planter against a wall, a lift lobby, a light well or a courtyard slot.

Specifications

• Height1.5 to 3 metres
• Width1 to 1.5 metres
• Native toThe Philippines and eastern Indonesia
• FoliageDeeply and finely divided glossy bright green palmate leaves on upright stems; evergreen
• Growth rateModerate

Conditions

• SoilPrefers moist, free-draining soils rich in organic matter
• LightFull sun to partial shade; bright indirect light indoors
• WaterModerate
• ClimateThrives in tropical and warm subtropical regions and in bright interior positions; frost sensitive

Additional Features

• FormNarrow upright habit with a fine, feathery texture and no tendency to spread
• FlowersSmall greenish-white flowers in rounded umbels, followed by dark berries
• UsesIdeal for narrow screening, planters against walls, lift lobbies and light wells, tropical borders and interior schemes
• SpacingPlant 0.6 to 0.9 metres apart for a continuous narrow screen
• Low MaintenanceTip prune to encourage branching; no shaping otherwise required
• Pest ResistanceGenerally resilient
• VersatilityPlanted in ground, in slim planters or used as an interior specimen in good light

Green Aralia solves the screen that has to happen in half a metre of soil depth.